Report: Local connection in plot to kill Bieber

Two would-be assassins, including one arrested last month in Rotterdam, planned to kill teen megastar Justin Bieber, according to an Albuquerque television station. KRQE-TV says Mark Staake and his nephew, Tanner Ruane, planned to castrate and kill Bieber at one of the singer’s November concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Ruane, who was arrested in November by State Police in Rotterdam, was expected to carry out the castration, KRQE reported. Police say Staake, 41, and his 23-year-old nephew were arrested at the U.S.-Canadian border in Highgate.